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Write a program to find greatest prime number in an given range

Language is either java or python

1st Nov 2019, 5:34 PM
Nirmala Agarwal
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2 Answers
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Hint: a prime number is only divisible by one and itself, there is no shortcut to avoid checking every division possible.
1st Nov 2019, 5:49 PM
Frenchtoast
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If range is from [a,b] (b>a), then start going from b to a, when find prime then break; from loop as it will be the largest prime in that range
2nd Nov 2019, 12:58 AM
Gaurav Agrawal
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